On Death without Dignity

The Human Impact of Technological Dying

David Moller (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

116 Seiten

1990
Baywood Publishing Company Inc (Verlag)
978-0-89503-067-2 (ISBN)

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Attempts to re-humanize the inevitable biological occurrence called dying. This book says that through the advancement of medicalized technology, has come the demise of the contemporary dying process. The oncological death is reflected as failure in the part of medicine, the physician, and the hospital.

Candidly written, ""On Death Without Dignity: The Human Impact of Technological Dying"", attempts to re-humanize the inevitable biological occurrence called dying. It is Moller's view that through the advancement of medicalized technology, has come the demise of the contemporary dying process. The oncological death is reflected as failure in the part of modern medicine, the physician, and the hospital; yet the patient experiences alienation, stigma, helplessness, and normlessness. Yet as a culture the current societal approach to the dying-silent avoidance-only adds to this alienation. Society has failed to provide the necessary rules for this universal, social, and biological event.

David Moller

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introductory Précis: Jack Elinson, Ph.D.

Introduction

Technology, Meaning, and Death
Meaning of death or death of meaning

Death and Denial in Modern America

Technological Medicine, The Technocratic Physician and Human Dying

Individualism, Fellowship, and Dying
The non-communal environment
Dying and loss of fellowship

Modern Dying and Social Organization of the Hospital
The hospital as total institution
Patient alienation within the hospital

The Stigma of Dying
Identity problems: Beyond the looking-glass
The stigma of dying: Scenarios of personal terror
Sexuality and dying: Fertile ground for stigma
As the new self emerges

Approaching Omega: The Roller Coaster of Dying
The course of dying and societal forces

A Concluding Statement on Technology and the Social Isolation of Dying

A Methodological Note

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.6.1990
Reihe/Serie	Perspectives on Death and Dying
Verlagsort	Amityville
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-89503-067-5 / 0895030675
ISBN-13	978-0-89503-067-2 / 9780895030672
Zustand	Neuware